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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Rocket power

Gents

I realize this is a very long shot, but has anyone here used bike carbs on their P&J - or anywhere else come to that. Particularly on a 2.0 Ford Duratec - currently sitting under my Midget bonnet.

Tempted by a kit on offer which supplies a canted inlet manifold, 40mm bike carbs and the TPS for the ECU etc etc. I reckon it will just clear the inner wing on the offside and provide about 160/170 bhp.

Must update my life insurance......
Oggers

No but I have a friend with a Morgan who has done exactly this and tells me that it works well. Not sure whether he bought the kit that you have seen. He has spoken of having had the jets "drilled out". That's all I know.
Simon Wood

Oggers

Might be worth posting on the Locost Builders Forum as I have seen discussion of fitting bike carbs as well as Duratec engines into those homebuilt Sevenesque sports cars.

Cheers
Mike
M Wood

Why bike carbs?

Is there an off the shelf DCOE kit?

What do you need the TPS signal for if running a carb setup?
Malcolm

Mike

Yes - They are very popular with the kit car fraternity. The vast majority of articles seem favourable.

Malc

I could go for twin Webers or something for sure, but bike carbs are far easier to set up, are arguably smoother throughout the rev range and as I have bikes I know their foibles. TPS not strictly necessary, but the feedback does modify the timing a little more advantageously.
Oggers

If it'd been yesterday I'd have asked my mate, he's got a (factory built) Zetec 1.8 Westie and keeps mentioning putting it on Jenvey(?) throttle bodies, he's also a biker.

As with all forums, kit, modified, WSCC and others there's a range of (accuracy of) knowledge and experience to consider when reading the posts. The few times I've ended up on these sites I've found the info about the A & B engines and T9 gearboxes to be often the 'common knowledge' type rather than up-to-date and sometimes misconceptions - but I'd guess as it's such a popular mod the info on those forums would be better.
Nigel Atkins

Have you considered the Omex 48mm throttle body kit--nice

You sucked me in with the rocket power
A mate here has a rocket which he's promised (pushed into) me a drive
We did a heap of work to it to give it a run
He'd organised the local airport but when we got out there safety dude knocked it on the head saying whoever drives it has to have a jet endorsed drag racers licence- so that was that
It's going to happen though ,the car's ready and the pilot is nervously excited about it--i think
lol
willy





William Revit

Tut, tut, Willy, the man said rocket.




:)

But I envy you, very much.

I once tried to book a ride in the two-seat rail Santa Pod had.

Below Vanishing Point rocket Funny Car, looked liked only space frame, four wheels and something the size and look of a couple of fire extinguishers for the 'engine'.

I saw Sammy Miller in his rocket car(s) a few times at our local Santa Pod Drag track back in the late 70s to mi-80s. That and a couple of on-song top-fuel thundering off the line are probably why I find F1 so boring and irritating engine/exhaust sound, like a gnat desperate for a pee.

We had Vampire jet car local to us, and I once saw it parked up under tarp parked on the wide pavement of a street corner I guess there ready for the village fete where it'd do flame displays on the rec (recreational grass playing ground), imagine the H&S concerns now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skr2hSyeZK4


Nigel Atkins

Ok jet it is ---lol
Don't know if envy is the right word - more worried for i think would be more suitable
We found some interesting faults in the car checking it over, the main one was the control for the brake chutes also cuts the fuel for the afterburners and was out of whack so that at the end of a run pulling the brakes on wasn't cutting the fuel so the chutes would have burnt up and the car would have ended up 20Klm down somewhere stuck in a sand dune--that'd be fun -not
The funny bit about this is Dave the owner is a fairly large guy and keeps buying cars he can't fit in, there's just not a hole anywhere in the rollcage of this thing that he can fit through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqKc9NTGhY


Slight thread drift --sorry Oggers
I'd check out the Omex t/bodies



William Revit

A bit of overkill for a lawn mower.
Martin

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